Okay so I am taking an online course to learn Linux and Ubuntu. On my desktop that has windows 8.1, I downloaded Ubuntu and then watched a couple of videos to make sure that I partitioned the drive for Ubuntu. I picked the third option on the installation prompt, which said to choose your own. I dont know what exactly it says but I double checked to make sure that it was not going to install Ubuntu only and delete Windows 8.1. SO, I partitioned it in the installation prompt and made sub folders for the ram and etc. Then, I installed Ubuntu. It ran fine. But, I wanted to go back to Windows 8.1 and after restarting the computer; I am unable to do that. What do I do to go back to Windows 8.1? Is there a way? Because I do not have backup in a CD of the operating system? Please reply fast! Thanks
I did not have the option of running in alongside windows 8. Otherwise I would have.
I looked for the Grub menu, but in the entry, Windows 8.1 is not available. But I know it is still on the hard drive because I am able to go to the workforce of my computer from Ubuntu.
1sblk sudo os-prober
Okay so I entered the commands in the terminal
this is what I got with the first command of lsblk
:
SDA 8:0 O 1.8t 0disk
-sda 8:1 0 476 m 0 part (swap)
-sda2 8:2 0 18.6g 0 part /
-sda 3 8:3 0 18.6 part/home
-sda 4 8:4 0 954 m 0 part/boot/efi
sro 11:0 1 1024 0 ram
lsblk
andsudo os-prober
. It might be that you have installed it and not deleted Windows 8, but a GRUB menu entry wasn't created.